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43Letting reality biteTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2): 208-212. 2008.Describes an experiment in teaching undergraduate epistemology, guided by Peirce’s pragmatic maxim.
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98Engineering philosophyInternational Journal of Machine Consciousness 2 (1): 45-50. 2010.A commentary on a current paper by Aaron Sloman. Sloman argues that in order to make progress in AI, consciousness, "should be replaced by more precise and varied architecture-based concepts better suited to specify what needs to be explained by scientific theories". This original vision of philosophical inquiry as mapping out 'design-spaces' for a contested concept seeks to achieve a holistic, synthetic understanding of what possibilities such spaces embody. It therefore does not reduce to eith…Read more
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295J.J. Liszka, "An Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1): 122-124. 1998.
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416Mining meaning from WikipediaInternational Journal of Human-Computer Interactions 67 (9): 716-754. 2009.Wikipedia is a goldmine of information; not just for its many readers, but also for the growing community of researchers who recognize it as a resource of exceptional scale and utility. It represents a vast investment of manual effort and judgment: a huge, constantly evolving tapestry of concepts and relations that is being applied to a host of tasks. This article provides a comprehensive description of this work. It focuses on research that extracts and makes use of the concepts, relations, f…Read more
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169“Logic, Ethics and the Ethics of Logic”In T. Thellefsen B. Sorensen (ed.), Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words, . pp. 271-278. 2014.This piece explores the meaning of the following quote from Charles Peirce (1902), ". . . the main reason logic is unsettled is that thirteen different opinions are current as to the true aim of the science. Now this is not a logical difficulty, but an ethical difficulty; for ethics is the science of aims. Secondly, it is true that ethics has been, and always must be, a theatre of discussion for the reason that its study consists in the gradual development of a distinct recognition of a satisfac…Read more
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220Peirce’s Reception in Australia and New ZealandEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (1). 2014."Although I think it is far to say that in what natives of this part of the world call 'downunder,' Peirce is still a minority interest, appreciation of his work appears to be growing slowly but surely..."
Deakin, Victoria, Australia
Areas of Interest
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Metaphilosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Meaning |
Truth |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Wilfrid Sellars |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |